Half the manhours you pay for on most jobs are wasted because the job was not planned right, so the right tools were not handy at the right place at the right time, or the right materials were not delivered to the handiest spots or materials were not stacked in the right order for erection, or you bought cheap materials that took too long to fit, or your workmen had to come back twice to finish a job they could have done on one trip.

Half a mile below at the mouth of Salyer's Canyon was an old ranch that the company had purchased from A. J. Armstrong, occupied by a Mexican, his wife, and an old trapper.

The mate, Robert Juet, who had kept the journal on the Half Moon, was experienced -- but he was a bitter old man, ready to complain or desert at any opportunity.

Half of it was natural, half was Smith College.

Madero's great grandson Jose ' Pepe ' Madero was once a key member of the Football Manager-based Forum The Dugout Community's The Third Half ( TTH ) section.

Half of the increase was from higher summer melting, with the rest caused by velocities of some glaciers exceeding those needed to balance upstream snow accumulation ( Krabill et al., L24402, GRL 2004 ).

Half of the respondents, aged from 16 to 19, agreed Stalin was a wise leader.

Douglas Hunter, in Half Moon ( 2009 ), believes Hudson may not have mentioned his supposed discovery of the island because he was " loath to address a crew insurrection that might well have erupted at that time, when the men realized where he was trying to take them.

Half of the island was expected to remain uninhabitable for another decade.

In autumn 2006, Smith starred opposite Belinda Lang in a tour of a new comedy An Hour and a Half Late by French playwright Gérald Sibleyras, which was adapted by Smith.

The first recorded exploration by the Dutch of the area around what is now called New York Bay was in 1609 with the voyage of the ship Halve Maen or " Half Moon ", captained by Henry Hudson, in the service of the Dutch Republic, as the emissary of Holland's stadholder Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange.

On March 14, 1942, the first patient was treated for streptococcal septicemia with US-made penicillin produced by Merck & Co. Half of the total supply produced at the time was used on that one patient.

: Half an hour after his head was cut off.

: Half an hour after, his head was cut off.

Half an hour later it ( or another one ), was seen back in Chicago.

After some time spent inactive, he was asked to play the famous Half Note in New York City in 1971 by guitarist Jim Hall.

Half the native population of Hispaniola in 1518 was killed by smallpox.

The surname Stark was later used in King's novel The Dark Half, in which an author's malevolent pseudonym, " George Stark ", comes to life.

" King dedicated his 1989 book The Dark Half, about a pseudonym turning on a writer, to " the deceased Richard Bachman ", and in 1996, when the Stephen King novel Desperation was released, the companion novel The Regulators carried the " Bachman " byline.

Meanwhile, in 1954, he began working with Tony Hancock in BBC radio's Hancock's Half Hour, playing a character with his own name ( but having the invented middle name Balmoral ), who was a petty criminal who would usually manage to con Hancock.

In 1894, Roosevelt met Jacob Riis, the muckraking Evening Sun newspaper journalist who was opening the eyes of New York's rich to the terrible conditions of the city's millions of poor immigrants with such books as, How the Other Half Lives.

Half crazed by the weight dragging, the dust, and the heat, the horse leaped our wall, dashing out the rider's brains against it, and leaving him lying there among us -- while the horse crashed away through the brush.

Two comprehensive histories of Engelbart's laboratory and work are in What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry by John Markoff and A Heritage of Innovation: SRI's First Half Century by Donald Neilson.

* A west coast pale ale brewed by Half Acre Beer Company, Chicago, IL.

1842 Half Quart coin issue by the Royal Mint

Novels such as " Half Life " by Shelley Jackson and " Light " by M. John Harrison have received the James Tiptree, Jr. award for incorporating themes of fantasy and sexuality.

* 2006 The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden by Catherynne M. Valente and Half Life by Shelley Jackson ; with special recognition for Julie Phillips ' biography of James Tiptree, Jr., James Tiptree, Jr .: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon

A major scale may be seen as two identical tetrachords separated by a whole tone, or whole step, the new set of steps " Whole: Whole: Half: Whole: Whole: Whole: Half "( in Semi-tone 2 2 1 2 2 2 1 ).

Half a dozen or more times a day, Potsdamer Platz ground to a halt while a train of 60 to 100 wagons trundled through at walking pace preceded by a railway official ringing a bell.

* 1236: Half of Iberia has been reconquered by the Christians.

Half the increase in bone density ( measured by X-ray densitometry ) is attributed to the higher atomic weight of Sr compared with calcium, whereas the other half a true increase in bone mass.

In September 2012, she will be featured in a campaign called " 30 Songs / 30 Days " to support Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, a multi-platform media project inspired by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn ’ s book.

Half a dozen urban plans for Tirana prepared by consultants have included proposals on how to guide development.

Half of the Members of the Bundestag are elected directly from 299 constituencies ( first-past-the-post system ), the other half are elected from the parties ’ Land lists in such a way as to achieve proportional representation for the total Bundestag ( if possible ).

In other parts of Europe, many democratic socialist parties were united in the International Working Union of Socialist Parties ( the " Two and a Half International ") in the early 1920s and in the London Bureau ( the " Three and a Half International ") in the 1930s.

He frequently interrupted the proceedings with deprecating comments about the quality of the script ( often switching out of character into his " snide " voice that he'd perfected during his time on Hancock's Half Hour ), he would try to seize roles from other cast members and so on.

* During the Lent Half it is dominated by the Field Game a code of football, but this is unique to Eton and cannot be played against other schools.

Half the subjects were told that one kind of study supported the deterrent effect and the other undermined it, while for other subjects the conclusions were swapped.

Half of these possibilities, those where the left boundary is even, correspond to the 8 types of DCT ; the other half are the 8 types of DST.

She came to prominence in the early 1950s with the novelty hit " Come On-a My House " written by William Saroyan and his cousin Ross Bagdasarian ( better known as David Seville, the father figure of Alvin and the Chipmunks ), which was followed by other pop numbers such as " Botch-a-Me " ( a cover version of the Italian song Ba-Ba-Baciami Piccina by Alberto Rabagliati ), " Mambo Italiano ", " Tenderly ", " Half as Much ", " Hey There " and " This Ole House ", although she had success as a jazz vocalist.

( Half of the 960 are left-right mirror images of the other half, however Chess960 castling rules preserve left-right asymmetry in play.

Half the bacteria have allele A and the other half have allele B.

Half of these men were inducted at Fort Pitt, while the other half assembled at Fort Union, the site of present day Lewisburg, under the command of General Andrew Lewis.

* Half of Mansfield is in Brown County and the other half is in Spink County.

Half the construction costs were paid by Ezra Mosseri, an affluent Egyptian Jewish banker and director of the National Bank of Egypt, and another 46 % by other wealthy Cairo Jews.

Half of South Bristol is located on a peninsula, the other half on Rutherford Island.

Half an interchange is located in Millstone ( Exit 16 for CR 537 ) with the other half in Jackson.

Half of the village was in the town of New Castle, the other half is in the town of Bedford.

On June 3, Michael Anthony began a successful tour with Hagar billed as " The Other Half " ( a reference to them being half of Van Halen with the other half being Eddie / Alex ), with Anthony singing lead vocals sometimes.

eBay expanded from its original " set-time " auction format to include " Buy It Now " standard shopping ; shopping by UPC, ISBN, or other kind of SKU ( via Half. com ); online classified advertisements ( via Kijiji or eBay Classifieds ); online event ticket trading ( via StubHub ); online money transfers ( via PayPal ) and other services.

Halfway earned a place in the history of the dot-com era in December 1999, when it received and accepted an offer to rename itself as Half. com, Oregon after the e-commerce start-up for one year in exchange for $ 110, 000, 20 computers for the school, and other financial subsidies, and became the first city in the world to rename itself as a dot com.

Half the soldiers had to be Swiss, while the other half could be made up of Germans and Hungarians.

" ( i. e., hysterical ) Said by Ringo Starr's Aunt Jessie in Magical Mystery Tour, also said by BSM Williams ( amongst many other malapropisms ) in the BBC comedy series It Ain't Half Hot Mum ( Episode: " Gloria's Finest Hour ")

Half of the trench was to be commanded by the French, the other half by the Americans.